--- author: '' category: '' date: 2010/10/10 13:05 description: '' link: '' priority: '' slug: BB928 tags: '' title: No, 10/10/10 is not that special, either type: text updated: 2010/10/10 13:05 url_type: '' --- Today is 10/10/10 (or rather 10/10/2010 which doesn't look so cute, right?) and again there's a flood of "this only happens every 100 years! OMG!". At least this time it's correct. However: How often is 10/**11**/10 going to happen? How often did yesterday's 10/**9**/10? Every 100 years, too. In fact, every date written in that format will happen once every 100 years, because that's the way **dates work**! Oh, you may say, the special part is that the three numbers are the same, silly! But then again, last year we had 9/9/9 and next year we'll have 11/11/11 (much cooler than 10/10/10!) so ... no, not that special. OTOH, today (at 10PM) my kid and I will see the first ever episode of Ben10 Ultimate Alien (hey, 5 10s!) for the first time and that... well, that has never happened before, and will never happen again. That, friends, **is** special.